[ gpsdrive ] Nautical maps

[Doug Robinson]

Last season I used gpsdrive w/micro$ft maps which were marginally useful for
crossing Lake Ontario to Toronto.  (They were ok for finding your way around
the waterfront).  I supplemented by using Google Earth for which I found a
series of graphics someone had collected for the major harbours of the world
of which fortunately Toronto was included.  I has hoped by now someone had
interfaced the free distribution from NOAA, but so far I haven't found it.

The marine users need to collect together and get the job done.
Roch.Inst.of Tech nearby is famous for GIS, govt spy sats, etc.  (hmm main
lab bldg. is named after Pres. Lydon Johnson).
I would be willing to kick in a Ben Franklin to fund a coop student in the
summer of code to paste something together.....how many others would due the
same?

On 2/29/08, gpsdosm at trixtar.org <gpsdosm at trixtar.org> wrote:
>
> Bill Bickley wrote:
> > I would dearly appreciate a tutorial on how to generate a GPSDrive map
> > using the free NOAA EMC maps, tailored to the neophyte Linux user.  A
> > Google search of GPSDrive in marine applications turns up essentially
> > nothing.
>
>
> Just a newbie myself,  I wonder if soemeone could do a control
> message to create a group for gps-drive/open-map, something like
> alt.community-gps-map? I find ng's easier to search/browse/post.
>
>
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